[cups.general] cupsaddsmb -> No PPD file for printer (yes I know, I have RAW printers!)

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

I have a "full-blown" Samba domain controller running on a small ARM 
device (64 MB RAM, 266 MHz XScale CPU).

Is has several printers connected, and Windows clients print through 
Samba/CUPS.

Because of tiny processing power of this ARM device, it only prints well 
to PostScript printers. Anything non-Postscript has to be converted via 
Ghostscipt, foomatic and/or other filters, which just take too much time 
(sometimes, 20 minutes to print a document).

Therefore, I set up such printers to use RAW mode, and clients use their 
own Windows driver.

Unfortunately, RAW printers break "cupsaddsmb", i.e.:


# cupsadsmb -a -v -H 127.0.0.1 -U Administrator
(...)
cupsaddsmb: No PPD file for printer "BROTHER_HL2070N_2" - Not Found


I understand that cupsaddsmb was not intended to be used with RAW 
printers, but it makes it uncomfortable to use when one has more 
printers, as it's not possible to use the -a switch ("Export all printers").

Are there any workarounds to that?


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org